The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-06-10

than eves before made. There Vas consider,
sose compettion among buyers. The credit
OF the territory Il gtlt edged.
y. &. Keith, cashiet Of the bank Of Elkton.
dakota, who he's been In trouble for soma
dme, Wa arrested Wednesday tot forgery and
Waived examination. The bonds were dxed
u $4,000. He IL now IN the custody Of the
shsri6 trying to secure the amount, having
been required to give bonds on other counts.
1t will b hard to raise II.
Dr. E. L. Mansdeld, ono Of the wealthiest
and widest known citizens Of Iowa, was found
dead sitting upright in HE buggy, the lines In
bis hands, four mtles put OF Cedar Rapids on
Thureday morning. He was in apparentg good
health when he left the city an hour earlier.
d.. Mansfield came here forty years ago and
was one Of the Oldest physicians In the
ounty.
Samuel g. Reed, . deserter, attempted ia
escape from the military guard at San An.
tonic, Texas, Wednesday, and was fatally
shot. Reed has . remarkable history. He I.
believed to have committed half . dozen mur.
ders. A few years ago he and another de
serter killed q rich Jew at Matamoras. HI
comes Of q good family in Alabama.
A dispatch from Conway, Ark, says:
During . festival at . church in Harvey
township, Dan and Albert Mabey quarreled
with Tom Middleton, . rival Of Dams in q
love affair. The brothers called Middleton
out Of the church and attacked him with q
knife. Others Joined In the ARRAY aud sew.
etal shots were fired. Dan Mabey was fatally
shot and Middleton will not live. Albert
Msbey is believed to be seriously injured but
cannot be found.
A special to the Times Democrat from
Coffeeville, Miss, says: "Airmouut, a town
nine miles east of this place, was visited
Tuesday by . terrible hsilstorm lasting an
hour. Crops In that vicinity, which were
unusually promising, were completely de
stroyed. The roofs of houses were battered
In by hailstones. which were larger than hen
eggs. Many farmers are completely rutncd.n
Reports from FAyette, Wesson and Bcaure-
gard, Miss, are OF q like tenor, though the
damage done does not appear to be as great
as at Cofecville.
IA ~ WNSA6 0AO AOCIuCCu VOtCu NlOsVUU
bonds to be used to purchase city buildings,
and q site for the same, with the intention
that II the county seat was located there on
July ID to use the buildings as q court house.
The council last week located the site on the
north side Of the city. Mayor Mills vetoed
this, as the north side only pays onc-tenth OF
the taxes. The council this afternoon passed
It over the mayors head, and the south side
citizens have nov served an Injunction on
issuing the city bonds.
Brownsville, Texas, dispatches Of Tuesday
say that Balss cutoff, above the Santa Maria
Mexican territory, and the refuge of desperate
bandits, thieves and smugglers, was raidcd
by forces from both sides of the river. Sheriff
Breto, Of that county, and Deputy Cleansncr,
OF Hidalgo, with about fifty rancheros and
deputies, entered and drove out the bandits,
who met with a reception from the other side
from q detachment Of the Third cavalry under
command Of Gel. Hernandez. A sharp fight
ensued. in which Col. Hernandez was
wOundcd and one of his men killed and an
other wounded. One bandit wss killed, sew.
eral wounded and q number captured, several
Of whom are well known murdcrers. They
were executed on the spot. A large amount
of stolen stock WA found and returned to its
owners.
Jacob Gaudaur Monday defeated Ned Han
Ian, the great e~x-champlon, in q race for the
championship of America and g, 5000, a three
mile pull on Calumet lake. The figures 5000
were taken from the president ofthc Farragut
club, who was understood to be the time
keeper. The timers ON the Referees boat,
however, agree that the three miles was made
in 1880. This has been declared official.
Gaudaur, therefore, broke the record, the best
previous time being his own against Tcemcr,
over the same course, 1854. 1t is announced.
that Hanlan also broke the previous record,
having finished in 1894. His hacker says he
will send Hanlan to Australia, and II he de.
feats Beach will once more pit him against
Gaudaur.
Sycamore, Illinois, was the scene Of dread
full crime last week. Saturday the sheriff
arrested Christina Gustafscn, q single Swedish
girl 81 years of age, for numbering her
fllegitimate child, a little boy about 9 years
old. She came to this country two years ago,
leaving the child with a brother and sister. in
Sweden, but not contributing to his support,
they brought the child to his mother the first
of last week, leaving him at the house where
she was employed as a domestic, she receiving
him under protest. On Friday the brother
came to see the child, when the woman told
conflicting stories of its whereabouts, leading
to an investigation, when 1t was found in a
woodshed closet. The indications were that
the murder was committed by strangulation
though the clothing was wet as If drowned.
BobLsmar, accused of killing the Harmon
brothers, of Dallas, Miss, In 1854, was &C.
quilted by the Jury at Oxford on Thursday on
the third trial, the case having been taken to
the supreme court three times. Lamar was
first sentenced to be hanged; on the second
trial he was sentenced to the state prison for
life. He will now be taken to Calhoun coun-
ty and be tried for killing Detective Wise, of
Texas, just after he killed the Harmon BROTH
ers. Lamar's broth~er-in.law, Bishop, was
hanged at Pittsboro last July for the crime.
Lamar Is said to have been with Bishop. De.
tective Wise was after Lamar, and a reward
was offered for him for killing the Harmons.
Wise was led into . trap and murdered, when
Lamar went to the wilds of Alabama, where
he was finally captured.
A man named Beach recently married Mar.
garet Joseph and was visited at his residence
in the town Of Milo, Mile Laos county, Minr.,
Nor. LAY night Of last week by seven men from
the village of Bridgman, who subjected them
to most brutal indignities, pouring molasses